London Lives
Title | London Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Hitchcock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 479 |
Release | 2015-12-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107025273 |
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London
Title | Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Hitchcock |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 2004-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0826427154 |
London in the 18th century was the greatest city in the world. It was a magnet that drew men and women from the rest of England in huge numbers. For a few the streets were paved with gold, but for the majority it was a harsh world with little guarantee of money or food. For the poor and destitute, London's streets offered little more than the barest living. Yet men, women and children found a great variety of ways to eke out their existence, sweeping roads, selling matches, singing ballads and performing all sorts of menial labor. Many of these activities, apart from the direct begging of the disabled, depended on an appeal to charity, but one often mixed with threats and promises. Down and Out in Eighteenth-Century London provides a remarkable insight into the lives of Londoners, for all of whom the demands of charity and begging were part of their everyday world.
The Small House in Eighteenth-century London
Title | The Small House in Eighteenth-century London PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Guillery |
Publisher | Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies |
Pages | 351 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780300102383 |
London's modest eighteenth-century houses - those inhabited by artisans and labourers in the unseen parts of Georgian London - can tell us much about the culture of that period. This fascinating book examines largely forgotten small houses that survive from the eighteenth century and sheds new light on both the era's urban architecture and the lives of a culturally distinctive metropolitan population. Peter Guillery discusses how and where, by and for whom the houses were built, stressing vernacular continuity and local variability. He investigates the effects of creeping industrialisation (both on house building and on the occupants), and considers the nature of speculative suburban growth. Providing rich and evocative illustrations, he compares these houses to urban domestic architecture elsewhere, as in North America, and suggests that the eighteenth-century vernacular metropolis has enduring influence.
LONDON LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Title | LONDON LIFE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PDF eBook |
Author | M. DOROTHY GEORGE |
Publisher | |
Pages | 504 |
Release | 1964 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
City of Laughter
Title | City of Laughter PDF eBook |
Author | Vic Gatrell |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 720 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0802716024 |
Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.
London in the Eighteenth Century
Title | London in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Besant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 742 |
Release | 1903 |
Genre | London (England) |
ISBN |
Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London
Title | Disorderly Women in Eighteenth-Century London PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Henderson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 2014-06-11 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317889878 |
This is the first full-length study of prostitution in London during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It is a compelling account, exposing the real lives of the capital's prostitutes, and also shedding light on London society as a whole, its policing systems and its attitudes towards the female urban poor. Drawing on the archives of London's parishes, jury records, reports from Southwark gaol as well as other sources which have been overlooked by historians, it provides a fascinating study for all those interested in Georgian society.